http://fruitbox.blogsome.com A blog about music, maths, computer science, programming, and much more. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just finished uploading ClipSpeak 1.5 to various places. Check it out on CodePlex! http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/08/31/clipspeak-15-released/ A few days back, this crossed my thought: We interact with our computers through a keyboard that has quite a number of keys. We can do the same things, albeit not as comfortably, on our mobile phones, which traditionally only has about 1/10th the number of keys as a full ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/08/30/the-minimum-number-of-keys/ Yesterday I started a small project to create a C# application that would let me play my MIDI keyboard from another computer over the internet. This application now works, and I call it MIDINet. MIDINet has a client-server-architecture. The server listens for incoming UDP-packets, parses those and translates them ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/06/29/playing-my-keyboard-from-the-internet/ Are you using MS Paint? In that case you might want to have a look at Paint.NET, which is like the new paint. It is free, runs on the .NET Framework, and has a lot of features that MS Paint lacks: layers and effects for instance. A very good thing ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/06/28/quick-app-tip-paintnet/ The Large Hedron Collider, LHC, the giant particle accelerator in Switzerland, will apparently be operational some time in October this year. If I recall correctly we were waiting last year too, but the accelerator broke down, and the costs associated with bringing it up in the winter was decided to ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/06/27/lhc-countdown-revisited/ ClipSpeak 1.5 will hopefully be out pretty soon. Some things to look forward to are: * Save to MP3 — Put your texts on your MP3-player * Lots of bug fixes — including a couple of bugs related to Adobe Reader and Firefox * Change voice speed and volume — These settings can ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/06/24/clipspeak-15-coming-soon/ As can be seen on my main homepage (a.k.a. my links page), at danielshome.webs.com, I have now set up a FriendFeed (here) aggregating my twitter, blogs and YouTube profile. Nice! http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/05/10/a-friendfeed-2/ As the title says, I am going to write about customising LaTeX to work with Swedish typographical rules and conventions. The articles will be in Swedish and will be on my Swedish blog, Fruitbox 2. http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/05/10/starting-article-series-on-swedish-typography-and-latex/ Today I am going to present one of the worst sorting algorithms, along with a C# implementation. The algorithm is called bogosort, also known by other names such as monkey sort, random sort or shotgun sort. This algorithm is very simple, and it works as follows: 1. Given a random array, ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/04/22/bogosort-3/ So the pirate bay trial, #spectrial, is now over. One year in prison and a fine of 30 million Swedish crowns, that’s the sentence. This outcome clearly shows the inadequacy of the justice system when laws are unable to keep pace with technological development. Sadly, I am not surprised. ... http://fruitbox.blogsome.com/2009/04/17/the-pirate-bay-trial/